not really sure what the point of @philos.dreary.dev is if i do stuff like this here, but i like that have a dedicated hegel space

i'll get back to you shortly, i have some ground to make up

the taken-for-granted patriarchy really gives the game away

enzo was right that legal scholars are putting up way more numbers than philosophers

dude i love that this feels like vibe-philosophizing but with rigor

like for most people there are like sacred things you HAVE to hold onto in order to make their shit work. but hes just like "yea im gonna adopt this principle and here are some reasons why i think it works, but whatever, if we disagree it's unlikely to affect the validity of the argument"

does it make sense to call this book dense but shallow? like we're doing a drive-by of the top concepts and hitting all the points, we're covering a lot of ground, but not developing much. which was intentional and stated up front, but i'm not sure how well it works overall

as in like, here are my stipulated definitions that hang together in a certain way but not going too extremely in depth on any of them. its not *that* far afield from similar works, just a little more intense in degree

i suppose i'd be less perturbed if i shared more of his intuitions

"every moral and every political theory which claims either that it is a complete theory, or even merely that it is complete regarding some issue, contains a principle of equality in this sense.

that is, it contains a closure principle stating that nothing else counts for the justification of moral or political action, or for action over education, etc. closure principles of this kind cannot therefore lend an egalitarian character to a theory."

its funny, as an anti-egalitarian i see the knots he's coming up against and have the impulse to take the exact opposite tack

yes of course, egalitarianism is vacuous!

im being a little flippant, i think hes actually making good ground, and i like that he draws attention to the deficiencies of naive and narrow forms. that being said, i don't think it can mangle itself into something viable

i see raz as largely clarifying men's (!!!) ideas as to the social and moral strifes of their own day

the discussion of the rhetorical uses of equality are good :)

annoying yt removed the miniplayer button and put in right click. ah well, 'i' keybinding still works

i have so much fun being retarded

playing minecraft with a timber mod and an efficiency 5 axe running through the forest like kirk from hoodwinked

boooo fuck you drm guy

i like geuss so much because he's a poor scholar

never cites hit sources, views of his own meld with things he's virtuously stolen from others

of course this is occasionally frustrating but i'm choosing the affirmative side of it right now

i appreciate this more as i read his influences and i'm more in the know, and it fills me with wonder about how much more there is to unearth and discover

i realize it was actually peiwen first

good for her policing her boundaries, i recognize now that they are sacred

fuuuck that hits the spot

that's why i have to be sensitive to this constraint, cache is only so big

i realize these are actually kinda contradictory but that almost makes it cuter

the real take is of course nietzsche, the pointers exist as far as you wish to pursue them, although at a certain point you'll probably just give up and the influence will be so indeterminate as to not be worth following

its just the boundary between my own pointers and others that gets fuzzy, but thats an issue with the imposition i'm bringing to the material, not the material itself

holy fuck this guy is absolutely bonkers i love him

i don't know how to communicate how big of a move that is, imagine writing a book on morality in political context and then casually 150 pages in be like "actually the scope of what i mean by the core concept under discussion is as broad as a general theory of evaluation"

its the exact reverse move from one i typically like to make, but for that reason it's merely a nominal distinction. interestingly he threw around "moralists" earlier which had a different timbre. fascinating

this was such a good call

alright, enough of that

the dead have their tasks, and i am not one of them yet

kind

we pack up our gear and we're gone again driven by passion, outward away from family and friends but what they can't see is that every day i'm drowning in a sea of faces that i miss so desperately with each flashing countenance a torrent of emotion, joy, and memories

the people i've grown to love so deeply throughout the years i've chosen a big family and the weight of their absence has brought me more than once to tears

i wake from sleep violently only to witness those lives and faces disappear slowly behind me again i'm pulled back into deep waters washed further away from my sisters and brothers am i truly living a dream when the only time i spend with you is in my sleep?

how am i to stay the course, to remain bold when all those my heart longs for remain firmly anchored at home am i truly living a dream when the only time i spend with you is in my sleep?

with every it's-been-a-while embrace i wish it could last an eternity silently praying for the courage to say "oh god, how i've missed you

i've seen you in my sleep we were laughing, crying, joking you know, the way it used to be back when we were younger and all that much more free i just hope you see that nothing's changed between you and me

no matter the time we've spent apart i know it's not always easy to show it but please believe that i carried you in my heart that you were with me through every mile i could have sworn i saw your phantom standing in the aisle!"

it seems you already know what i'm thinking and that, even after all this time some things still do go without saying

we savored the taste of our sweet youth and now, with calloused hands, gather the remaining fruit to go any farther, we must endure further pains skinned, mashed, and finally strained fermenting in the time spent away only to return with a fine vintage two cheers to the health of those who stayed